Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-22
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

nave formed protective union agalns
dead beats.
During the past year the various
postotfices in Washington Territory
issued money orders az reg ..ting 1894
go 80.
There are three saloons openly doine
business in Chehalis, Notwithstanding
prohibition carried there under the 10
cal option act.
Winunpsnoot, Chief of the Umatilla
Indians, died on the reservation, July
l, aged 10. He has long been consid
cred Il friend of the whites.
Miss Stella Galliher, OF Tacoma, who
has been attending the New England
conservatory OF music in Boston foI
the past year, returned to her home "A
few day ago.
Whatcom RereiUe: Another outfit
of Cinnamon from British Columbia
carrying large quantities of Struggled
opium, passed through Whatcom this
week en-route for Seattle.
A sleeping car was put on the switch
back route July 18th, to run regularly
hereafter. The crossing of the switch
back-eight and three-fourths miles
is now made in one hour. The COM
pany is prepared to handle eight trains
per day of IL hours on the switchback.
The peach crop of Yakima County,
which has never been sufficient to sup
ply the local demand, will this year az
ford surplus for export. Large num-
bers Of trees are coming in with first
product. The Yakima peach is re-
markable for fine flavor and is gener-
ally unsurpassed.
Every effort has been made to make
the journey across the switchback per-
fectly safe. There are five air-brakes
on the train, any one of which is cal
culated to hold it, and the train crews
are all picked men and receive wages
a third greater than those on other
sections of the road.
Saturday night a youngman named
George Ahrens was drowned while
bathing with a number of others in
Hangman creek, near Spokane Falls.
Being good swimmer, it is supposed
that he was attacked with cramps, as
he was drowned before any of his COM
rades could reach him.
Olympia, the beautiful, the capital
and the seat of government of Wash
ington Territory and perhaps the state
of Tacoma, has one hundred Chinese
within its limits. They will multiply
an hundred fold shortly unless there
are stringent measures adopted to
check the evil.-Ledger.
The Territorial Penitentiary at Walla
Walla, through the efforts of Superin-
tendent Paine, is fast becoming self
sustaining, soap making being one of
the main industries. Recently the
superindent received the lease of a
tract of fine clay soil and the prison
ers are to be put to work immediately
brick, fer which there is Il large
demand at that place.
On June 90, Judge Jones sentenced
John Brown to Is days in the Peniten-
tiary, for assault with deadly weapon,
and when the prisoner arrived at Wal
la Walla on July 7, he had only eight
days to serve-just about long enough
to ruin fellows reputation. 1t cost
the Territory as much to get him there,
however, as it would if he had been
sent up for hundred years.
In the Mckee Valley near North
Yakima, a company is planting ten
acres in tobacco, and at this date the
plants are said to present very salts
factory appearance. For the curing
of their tobacco crop alone the COM
pany is preparing to build house 12O
feet long, so feet wide and Is feet high.
For curing their hops the company is
building house about half as large,
in dimensions, as the tobacco house.
The following crop statistics of
Walla Walla county are given for the
year 1887: Wheat, "a 1902 acres oats,
S,1S8 acres; barley, 1850; hops, 80
acres; corn. 1902 acres; clover, 13l
acres; rye, $50 acres; timothy, $50
acres; alfalfa, GIG acres; broom corn,
80 acres; total, 123,O7S acres. This
year summer-fallow land is 56,597
acres. In 1856 there were 67,7OO
acres in grain. In 1887 there are 49,
761 acres, an increase of 50 ,O52 acres
in the grain area.
Governor Semple has appointed
Thomas Carroll, of Tacoma, Commits
sioner to represent this Territory at
Philadelphia in September next at the
celebration of the centennial of the
framing and PRONUNCIATION of the con-
stitution of the United States. Mr..
Carroll has accepted the position, and
will start east about the LIST of August
to attend the centennial in Philadel-
phia, early in September and wind up
at the Grand Army encampment in
St. Louis in the middle of the same
month.
Bishop Seghers, Catholic mission
airy was murdered in cold blood by
his companion on the night of No
vember % last. The scene of the
tradegy was on the banks of the
Yucon river, about 500 miles from its
mouth, and fully sixty miles from any
human habitation. The murderer is
Frank Fuller, young man from
Portland, Oregon, who accompanied
the bishop as servant and compan-
ion. He gave himself up but no
cause is assigned for the deed. The
murderer is now in Sitka, where he
will be tried.
From the North Yakima Republic of
July IA, we clip the following: G. De
Graf, connected with G. w. Gibbs in
the New Tacoma Mining Company, in
the Summit mining district, about 70
miles west of Yakima, started for this
city about the 2Sth of June to pur-
chase supplies for the camp, and has
not been heard from since. Mr.. Gibbs
has been in search of him the past
four days, and reached the city to-day
without finding any trace of the miss
ing partner. He left on foot, and
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